Five people shot in San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO

Chronicle Staff Report

Published
4:00 am PDT, Friday, September 5, 2008

Five people were shot in San Francisco on Thursday night in two separate attacks, police said.

The first shooting occurred at 25th and Bryant streets in the Mission District at around 6:13 p.m. when someone opened fire on two people who were sitting in a car with a 4-year-old child in the backseat. The two adults were injured in the shooting and taken to San Francisco General Hospital. The child was unhurt.

In the second shooting, someone shot three people at 24th and Utah streets in Potrero Hill at 9:46 p.m., police said. One person was killed. The other two were taken to San Francisco General, one with critical injuries and the other with nonlife-threatening injuries, police said.